With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

We shall now seek that which we shall not find

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.